Laptop Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi has Celeron M389 1.6GHz central processor unit inside and laptop BenQ R55.G24 has Core Duo T2300 1.6GHz CPU.
Both TravelMate 2414NWLMi and R55.G24 have 15.4" screen size.
Although memory could easily be expanded, 1GB on R55.G24 versus 0.25GB on TravelMate 2414NWLMi might be significant difference.
-1GB is maximum supportable RAM memory on both notebooks
The RAM memory in use on both laptops is DDR2.
Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi is something lighter with its weight of 2.7kg, comparing to 2.8kg at other laptop.
Graphic is built around Intel 910GML on TravelMate 2414NWLMi, but graphic on other is built using Nvidia Go 7400.
Graphic card is better on BenQ R55.G24 with embedded 128MB of memory.
More hard drive space were available at BenQ R55.G24 (80GB is contast to 40GB).
Lack of bluetooth on Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi might mean that you will have to buy externall bluetooth device for manipulating pictures from your handy or camera.
Infrared, which isn't available on both of these models, unable these laptops to communicate with some small devices .
Only BenQ R55.G24 have firewire needed for some camcorders.
There are no PCMCIA on Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi.
Small advantage of BenQ R55.G24 is built-in cardreader which reads 4 card types.
None has DVI output so you cannot connect them to some new LCD monitors.
Both notebooks have 4 USB ports each.
Laptops are able to use standard 54Mbit/s wireless connection.
There are no web camera in both notebooks which makes them bad for video conferencing and Internet telephony.
Operating system on Acer TravelMate 2414NWLMi is Linux and on BenQ R55.G24 is XP Home.
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